Can you give some advice to someone who wants to crate train but works all day? In other posts, I mentioned that my little one does great in her crate all day but won't go outside, will go occasionally on the puppy pads and whenever she wants all over the house.

She is very confused and some people mentioned that I should just pad train her because getting outside a lot may be difficult for me due to an illness. I am not sure whether to crate train or stick with pads. But those only work part of the time. Sometimes she will only do one or the other on the pad, not both...